Exit dormer for arched buildings



Sept. 5, 19.33.

J. a. SHODRON ET AL I ,925,284

EXIT DORMER FOR ARCHED BUILDINGS I Filed May 5, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet l 9INVENTORS Z; w a aQZZ-Z BY 42% mid/L mm ATTORNEYS P 1933- J. G. SHODRONEl AL EXIT DORMER FOR ARCHED BUILDINGS Filed May 5, 19:50 2 Sheets-Sheet2 A TTORNEYS Patented Sept. 5, 1933 1,925,284 EXIT DORMER FOR ARCHEDBUILDINGS John G. Shodron and Carl S. Wandschneider,

Fort Atkinson, Wis., assignors to James Manufacturing Company, FortAtkinson, Wis.

Application May 5, 1930. Serial No. 449,868

1 Claim.

Our invention relates to improvements in exit dormers for archedbuildings suchas hog houses and other enclosures for animals.

Objects of this invention are to provide means whereby such buildingsmay be provided with exits in their arched walls without weakening thestructure, without mutilating the supporting arches or subjecting any ofthem to strains not imposed upon the others; to provide means whereby asingle dormer may be equipped with exit doors allowing egress from aplurality of pens; to provide means whereby such exits may be formed inthe arched side of a building and covered by roof extensions which donot promote leakage; and in general to provide inexpensive serviceableand satisfactory dormers for buildings of the described type.

In the drawings:

7 Figure 1 is a perspective view of a fragment 1 of an arched buildingwall provided with my improved dormer, a portion of the wallcoveringbeing removed to expose the framing.

Figure 2 is a sectional View of substantially the same portion of thebuilding shown in Fig. 1, the section being drawn generally to line 22of Fig. 3.

Figure 3 is a front elevation of a portion of one of the dormers showinga fragment of the building wall at one side thereof and with one lowercorner of the illustrated door broken away to show the anchorage of thesill.

Figure 4 is a sectional view drawn to line 44 of Fig. 2.

Like parts are identified by the same reference characters throughoutthe several views.

The arches 10 and the foundation 11 may be assumed to be of the generaltype illustrated in Letters Patent of the United States No. 1,687,350dated October 16, 1928 and granted on application filed by John G.Shodron, one of the applicants herein named. The foundation wall 11 isrecessed between two of the arches and provided with a door sill 12which is secured to the foundation wall by staple+shaped anchors 13partially embedded in the wall and with side arms 14 projecting upwardlythrough the sill 12 and threaded to receive clamping nuts 15. At theends of the sill these anchors 13 preferably have one arm 14 engagingthe sill and another longer arm 16 engaging a foundation plate or sill17 as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1.

The central anchor 13 also servesto secure angle brackets to the sill,these angle brackets having base plates 18 through which the arms 14pass, and perpendicular flanges 19 extending upwardly from the opposingmargins of the base plates 18 to receive between them a door post ormullion 20.

This mullion 20 has a forwardly projecting door jamb member 21 ofreduced diameter and, if 60 formed of wood, the mullion will bepreferably encased in a metal sheath 22 whereby it is kept fromsplitting and protected from the elements.

Coupling plates 25 are clamped to the sides of the mullion by bolts 26and at the inner side of 65 the mullion they have convergent portionsprovided with parallel extremities clamped to the panel 27 by bolts 28,said panel having its opposite margin similarly clamped to a supportingpen post 29 by bolts 30. 70

The mullion 2O constitutes the center post of the dormer front. The endposts 340i this front wall have their rear margins cut away at inconformity to the curvature of the base portion of the arches 10 and arefitted to the front surface of these portions of the arches. Their lowerextremities 36 extend downwardly below the sills and the centralportions 38 of their inner surfaces are thickened or inwardly off-set inthe form of a vertically extending rib which constitutes the door jamb.The doors 40 are connected to the posts 34 by hinges 41, each doorclosing to the mullion flange or jamb member 21, to which it may beconnected by a latch 44 adapted to engagea two-way catch 45 carried bythe mullion. The roof rafters 60 form portions of the end walls of thedormer and are nailed or bolted to the arches and posts 34 respectively.

Between the posts 34 and the divergent portions of the arches 10 abovethe cut-away portions 35 of the posts, the dormer frame is provided withend walls 46, preferably laminated, and a metal sheet 4'? preferablyencases these end walls and the posts 34. Therefore there are two doorsfor the dormer, each hinged to the respective end posts 34 and closingupon the mullion jamb 21 to which the doors are latched. When openedthey may be secured in the open position by a hook 48 attached to theside wall of the building, as clearly shown in Fig. 4, in a position toengage the off-set central portion of the latch 44.

The lintel 50 spans the space between the door posts in an ordinarymanner and from this lintel a plate 51 extends inwardly and has its endssecured to the arches 10 by brackets 52, these brackets being preferablyflanges on a metallic liner 53 which extends underneath the plate 51.The end walls of the dormer extend upwardly above the plate 51 asindicated at- 55in Figure 2 q and support the dormer roof 56. The endsof no the roof boards are supported upon the concave upper margin of theend wall portion 55. These roof boards 56 are matched into the boarding58 of the building wall and constitute reversely curving or concaveextensions thereon, the roof covering 59 extending continuously from thebuilding wall outwardly over the dormer.

It will be understood that the panel 2*? and post 29 may constituteportions of a pen partition whereby the doors may control admission andegress to different pens, the entire dormer structure being so locatedand associated with adjacent arches as to permit the erection of adormer having two doors of adequate width and capable of being set intothe space between two arches without cutting or weakening the arches. Inthe ordinary building a minimum distance between arches will beapproximately four'ieet or more, and, inasmuch as the end posts of thedormers are applied to the outer face of the arches, each door-way maybe made at least two feet wide less one half the thickness of themullion.

By having the arches footed upon one sill between the legs of theinverted anchor staples,

and the mullion post footed upon the door sill in a similar manner andsecured thereto by the angle brackets, an exceedingly inexpensive dormermay be provided without weakening the building in any degree whatever.It will be obvious that the invention is applicable to either dormerwindow structures or dormer doors, although especially designed as ameans for providing arched stables with exit doors.

We claim:

A dormer doorway frame having side posts and a central post adapted toserve as a jamb for doors connected with the side posts, a cementitioussill capped by wooden sill members in sup porting relation to said sideposts, a set of angle clips having vertical flanges attached to thecenter posts and horizontal flanges resting upon the cementitious sill,and U-shaped anchor members embedded in the cementitious sill underneaththe respective posts and having vertically extending arms secured totheangle clips and the wooden sill members supporting the side postssubstantially as described JOHN G. SHODRON. CARL S. WANDSCHNEIDER.

